Associate Professor David Rivers, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Science, Western University, is an economist whose research focuses on Industrial Organization, Productivity, Economics of Crime, Applied Econometrics, and Applied Microeconomics. Rivers studies firm behavior, productivity, market outcomes, and crime using rigorous empirical methods, and his publications include work in leading economics journals. Rivers’s research mission is to use applied economic analysis to explain how incentives and market structures shape social and economic outcomes. Rivers teaches Industrial Organization at Western University and serves as Director of the Centre for Human Capital and Productivity; Rivers previously held a Visiting Fellow appointment at Collegio Carlo Alberto and earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.